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There have proven to be three ways to approach an Alternate history story as exemplified by the methods used in Alternative History-Piper, Flint, and Turtledove:

• in a context wherein the protaganists can control the passage between parallel worlds( see Paratime by H. Beam Piper).
• where the main characters are thrust into the alternative by uncontrollable events (see 1632 by Eric Flint).
• the assumption of the alternatives existence with no interaction between that reality and our own reality (as in most of Mr. Harry Turtledove's writing).

Each story method has it's own merits, each offers unique perspectives on our own existence.